Joakim Wrethed

Associate Professor (Docent)

Dr. Joakim Wrethed has hitherto mainly worked in Irish Studies but he also explores the contemporary novel in English more generally without any primary emphasis on national boundaries. The current research project involves the function of technology in select contemporary novels. Phenomenology, aesthetics and theology are overarching topics of his scholarly work.

Dr. Wrethed supervises theses with a cultural studies angle, but also theses that explore aesthetic, phenomenological or theological dimensions of contemporary novels.

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Selected publications

“John Williams’ Stoner and Literature as Dark Matter in the Age of Educational Managerialism”. HJEAS / Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23, Nr. 1. [Forthcoming 2019]